On Friday, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the transitional government announced that as of this Sunday a state of emergency will be enforced throughout the country in an effort to contain criminal gangs.
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00:00On Friday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the transitional government announced that as of this Sunday
00:05a state of emergency will be enforced throughout the country in an effort to contain criminal
00:09gangs.
00:10Massacres propagated in recent weeks, plus attacks on public, religious and health institutions,
00:15forced an urgent meeting of the transition government.
00:18On that meeting, the National Security Council was created to tackle the unprecedented violence
00:23crisis sweeping the country.
00:24The meeting, led by transition president Leslie Voltaire, was attended by the Prime Minister
00:29Alex Didier Fils-Aime, who said that from December 9 to this date alone, over 200 people
00:35have been killed by gang violence.